Copernic Desktop Search allows you to instantly find files, emails, images, multimedia and more, that is located on your PC (not the Internet).

It creates an initial index of your hard drive and provides an attractive and easy to use search interface that returns results instantly, as soon as you type in your keyword. It provides image thumbnails for picture matches, integrated preview with keyword highlighting and more.

Copernic Desktop Search can also (optionaly) index your web surfing history, as well as Contacts and Favorites

Features:

· Lets you perform sub-second searches of your PC's files and emails in a user-friendly interface.
· Enables you to search from any application, anytime. The search bar conveniently integrates with the Windows taskbar.
· Offers specific refining fields for each desktop search category.
· Uses your computer resources intelligently when indexing documents so as not to impair your work by throttling back while you are using other software.
· Displays and filters matching results as you type.
· Quickly creates and updates the index in the background with no limitation concerning the number of documents to be indexed.
· Delivers advanced fault tolerance and recovery architecture to ensure everlasting index integrity.
· Automatically indexes on-the-fly new and updated files in the background (Windows NT/2000/XP required), including new emails sent or received with Microsoft Outlook
· Supports advanced Boolean operators (AND/+, OR, NOT/-), quotes (exact phrase or whole word) and parentheses.
· Lets you enter keywords directly into the search box located in the Windows taskbar using a keyboard shortcut from any application.
· Lets you preview Web pages, text files, e-mails and pictures for selected results without needing to open any other application to analyze document’s relevancy or cut and paste a selection.
· Scrolls document previews directly to the first word or phrase that you are looking for.
· Offers specific sorting and grouping fields for each search category in order to ease result viewing.
· Offers plenty of time-saving shortcuts to other applications via links and right-click menus available in search categories.
· Offers many customizable options to configure various features and parameters.
· Highlights search keywords with a different color for each keyword in result lists and previews of text files or documents.



What's New in This Release:

· Mozilla Thunderbird and Eudora email search
· Indexing of emails, attachments and contacts from Thunderbird 1.0 or later
· Indexing of emails and attachments from Eudora 5.0 or later
· Smart indexing of network drives
· Full support for indexing network folders
· Intelligent detection of network connection availability
· Improved metadata indexing for pictures, music and videos
· Search within JPEG picture comments (using EXIF metadata)
· Search iTunes songs by artist, album, etc.
· Metadata indexing for QuickTime movies and OGG audio files
· New information pane listing additional categories with matching results
· One-click access to related results from other categories
· Display of match count per category
· Buttons to instantly seek to highlighted search terms
· New word-find buttons allowing to jump from one keyword occurrence to the other within document previews
· Previewing of found pictures, music, videos and contacts
· Filmstrip viewing mode for pictures
· Embedded player for audio and video files
· New preview pane for contacts
· Improved usability
· Added "Print" and "Delete" contextual commands for Outlook emails
· New filter to narrow picture searches by size (small, medium, large)
· Improved option tab for managing custom file extensions to index
· Customizable colors for search term highlighting
· Numerous user interface improvements (redesigned preview panes, redesigned Web search toolbar, new keyboard shortcuts, etc)
· API for adding custom file indexers
· New COM API allowing third-party developers to create plug-ins enabling new file type indexing (view PDF documentation)
· Other Improvements/Changes:
· Indexing of NTFS metadata
· Netscape 8 (beta) support
· 20 file types have been added to the default list of types to index
· Wildcards can now be used to add custom file extensions to index
· Miscellaneous performance improvements